boot problem with CompactFlash

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I am using a bootable compactflash connected to the master of my second IDE.
No other bootable devices, like hard drives are present in my system.
I made a build with the target designer, made my compactflash bootable with
bootprep, and then copied all the files from my image to this CF.
When my system boots I see the following message:

invalid boot.ini file
booting from C:\windows

and my system stops.
This is the contents of my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded"
/fastdetect /noguiboot /sos /bootlog

What is going wrong here ? In the past I did this several times without
problems.
 
Johnny said:
I am using a bootable compactflash connected to the master of my second IDE.
No other bootable devices, like hard drives are present in my system.
I made a build with the target designer, made my compactflash bootable with
bootprep, and then copied all the files from my image to this CF.
When my system boots I see the following message:

invalid boot.ini file
booting from C:\windows

and my system stops.
This is the contents of my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded"
/fastdetect /noguiboot /sos /bootlog

What is going wrong here ? In the past I did this several times without
problems.
Click to expand...
Is everything copied to the CF? I've fallen foul of this one several
times, usually from failing to tell Windows to show hidden and system
files before starting the copy, but also occasionally due to running out
of space. Also, is the windows directory actually called Windows, rather
than say WINNT?
Are there any attitional partitions on the CF?
 
There is only 1 FAT16 partition on my CF. All the files from my build have
been copied to this CF. The windows directory is c:\windows like the boot.ini
says.
It seems this has something to do with LBA or CHS boot. When I change this
in my bios, my system boots but stops with a blue screen (stop 6B).

Adora Belle Dearheart said:
Johnny said:
I am using a bootable compactflash connected to the master of my second IDE.
No other bootable devices, like hard drives are present in my system.
I made a build with the target designer, made my compactflash bootable with
bootprep, and then copied all the files from my image to this CF.
When my system boots I see the following message:

invalid boot.ini file
booting from C:\windows

and my system stops.
This is the contents of my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded"
/fastdetect /noguiboot /sos /bootlog

What is going wrong here ? In the past I did this several times without
problems.
Click to expand...
Is everything copied to the CF? I've fallen foul of this one several
times, usually from failing to tell Windows to show hidden and system
files before starting the copy, but also occasionally due to running out
of space. Also, is the windows directory actually called Windows, rather
than say WINNT?
Are there any attitional partitions on the CF?
Click to expand...
 
Johnny said:
There is only 1 FAT16 partition on my CF. All the files from my build have
been copied to this CF. The windows directory is c:\windows like the boot.ini
says.
It seems this has something to do with LBA or CHS boot. When I change this
in my bios, my system boots but stops with a blue screen (stop 6B).
Click to expand...
....can you use FAT16 with XPe? Try formatting it as FAT32 (and make sure
you have the FAT components included)
 
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